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6The philosophy of environmental emotions: grief, hope, and beyond (edited book)Routledge. 2025.This volume presents new philosophical perspectives on environmental emotions. It explores the motivating nature of emotions such as anger, grief, and hope in relation to the current climate crisis. Many of our emotional responses to the climate crisis take a distressed form like anxiety, despair, or grief. However, these emotions almost always coexist with hope, drive toward action, or a strengthened sense of relationality and belonging. This book explores the different levels at which these te…Read more
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10“Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False ConsolationsIn Gustav Strandberg & Hugo Strandberg (eds.), Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death, Springer Verlag. pp. 167-179. 2024.Jan Patočka opens “The Phenomenology of Afterlife” by indicating that philosophers always tend to focus on questions about the mortality or immortality of the soul when thinking about death, and that he wants to take a different route focusing instead on the phenomenology of the afterlife and the ways the diseased others live in us. And this is what the major bulk of the text focuses on. But as Patočka’s unfinished text is about to end, he leaves us with a peculiar addendum that signals that a r…Read more
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30In Hindsight: An Essay Concerning My Limited Moral UnderstandingThe Journal of Ethics 28 (2): 383-404. 2024.This article explores one central assumption that is guiding large portions of contemporary (analytic) moral philosophy: the idea that moral philosophy has to be forward-looking and action-guiding. By paying attention to a number of examples, it is argued that this guiding assumption flies in the face of important aspects of actual moral life. Moral situations are not (always) of the nature that we can plan for them, and reason about them in advance. Rather, the moral reality, or the moral conte…Read more
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16Kevin M. Cahill: Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture: Naturalism, Relativism, and Skepticism (review)SATS 24 (2): 205-210. 2023.
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13Unity and Art in a Mood of ScepticismIn Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley (eds.), Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, Springer Verlag. pp. 33-49. 2019.The way that Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals begins may seem perplexing since it does not state in a clear way what the aims and purposes of the book are, nor does it say anything about methodology. This chapter aims to show how this peculiar opening, rightly understood, functions as an entrance to an understanding of the book as a whole, and to make clear why the opening chapter’s focus on the concept of art is the right place to start. Murdoch’s view of metaphysics is that we are always guide…Read more
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Perception and Prejudice: Attention and Moral Progress in Iris Murdoch's Philosophy and C. S. Lewis's A Grief ObservedPartial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 18 (2): 259-279. 2020.
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10Language, ethics and animal life: Wittgenstein and beyond (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2014.A number of factors-new research into human and animal consciousness, a heightened awareness of the methods and consequences of intensive farming, and modern concerns about animal welfare and ecology-have made our relationship to animals an area of burning interest in contemporary philosophy. Utilizing methods inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the contributors to this volume explore this area in a variety of ways. Topics discussed include: * scientific vs. non-scientific ways of describing human …Read more
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40This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin’s philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin’s philosophical work. Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work focused on the pragmatic aspects of speech. His work on ordinary language philosophy and speech act theory is seen as his main contribution to philosophy. This book challenges this received view to show that Austin used his most well-kno…Read more
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35‘Taking the Linguistic Method Seriously’: On Iris Murdoch on Language and Linguistic PhilosophyIn Gary Browning (ed.), Murdoch on Truth and Love, Springer Verlag. pp. 109-132. 2018.This chapter brings together Murdoch’s thoughts about language with other central aspects of her thought such as love, attention, perfectionism and morality. By making clear how Murdoch’s variety of linguistic philosophy differs from contemporary philosophy of language, this paper also shows that Murdoch’s philosophy contains the seeds for a fruitful form of philosophizing which brings the moral and aesthetic dimensions of language into view. “Taking the linguistic method seriously” means making…Read more
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81Thinking About a Word—Love, for ExampleMetaphilosophy 48 (1-2): 30-46. 2017.What is it we do when we philosophize about a word? How are we to act as we ask the philosophical question par excellence, “What is …?” These questions are addressed here with particular focus on Troy Jollimore's Love's Vision and contemporary theories of love. Jollimore's rationalist account of love, based on a specific understanding of “reasons for love,” illustrates a particular philosophical mistake: When we think about a word, we are prone to believe that even though “the sense of the word”…Read more
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54The Categorical and the Everyday: On Coetzee, Murdoch, and Cavell and the Presence of Philosophy in NovelsPhilosophy and Literature 39 (1A): 66-82. 2015.“Not with that!” I shout. The hammer lies cradled in the Colonel’s folded arms. “You would not use a hammer on a beast, not on a beast!” In a terrible surge of rage I turn on the sergeant and hurl him from me. Godlike strength is mine. In a minute it will pass: let me use it while it lasts! “Look!” I shout. I point to the four prisoners who lie docilely on the earth, their lips to the pole, their hands clasped to their faces like monkey’s paws, oblivious of the hammer, ignorant of what is going …Read more
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31Reshef Agam‐Segal and Edmund Dain , Review of Wittgenstein's Moral ThoughtPhilosophical Investigations 41 (3): 370-375. 2018.
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19Language lost and found: on Iris Murdoch and the limits of philosophical discourseBloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc. 2013.Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a general loss of concepts." By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light of this difficulty, it offers a detailed examination of the problem of linguistic community and the roots of the thought that some philosophical problems arise due to our having lost the sense of our own language. But it is also a call for a radical reconsideration of how philosophy and literature rel…Read more
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14Philosophy, Literature, and the Burden of TheoryGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39 (2): 549-563. 2018.
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24Collingwood on Philosophical Literary LanguageCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 18 (1): 31-64. 2012.Focusing on the penultimate chapter of Collingwood's An Essay on Philosophical Method, this paper offers a re-evaluation of several points in leading interpretations of his philosophy. It is argued that this chapter, 'Philosophy as a Branch of Literature', invites us to rethink the relation between a systematic or problem-oriented and an historical or exegetical philosophy; how linguistic analysis (particularly in the form of ordinary language philosophy) relates to the history of philosophy; an…Read more
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117Interview. From Positivist Rabbi to Resolute Reader: James Conant in Conversation with Niklas Forsberg, Part 1Nordic Wittgenstein Review 2 (1): 131-160. 2013.Name der Zeitschrift: Nordic Wittgenstein Review Jahrgang: 2 Heft: 1 Seiten: 131-160
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59Inheriting Wittgenstein: James Conant in Conversation with Niklas Forsberg, Part 2Nordic Wittgenstein Review 7 (2): 111-193. 2018.This is part 2 of an interview with Prof. J. Conant, conducted by Niklas Forsberg.
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47From self-reliance to that which relies: Emerson and critique as self-criticismEducational Philosophy and Theory 1-10. 2017.How is one to navigate between a thinking grounded in the individual and a claim for communality? In Emerson, this kind of difficulty comes into view in familiar sentences such as Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense.’ How does the relationship between the personal and the universal look and function? In this paper, it is argued that Emerson may bring us clarity regarding the difficulties we are facing when it comes to questions about how we are to frame human person…Read more
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29James Conant in Conversation with Niklas Forsberg, Part 2Nordic Wittgenstein Review 5 (1). 2016.This is part 2 och an interview with Prof. J. Conant, conducted by Niklas Forsberg. This article will be published at the end of June 2016.
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40From self-reliance to that which relies: Emerson and critique as self-criticismEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (5): 498-507. 2019.How is one to navigate between a thinking grounded in the individual and a claim for communality? In Emerson, this kind of difficulty comes into view in familiar sentences such as Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense.’ How does the relationship between the personal and the universal look and function? In this paper, it is argued that Emerson may bring us clarity regarding the difficulties we are facing when it comes to questions about how we are to frame human person…Read more